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Clements Undergraduate and Graduate Fellows are selected based on their outstanding academic achievements and professional qualities. Several Fellows will be starting the next chapter in their career this fall and the Center would like to recognize their accomplishments. 

The Clements Center’s Maymester program kicked off in London this week. 16 students from a wide range of departments are taking part in the 4-week course that will primarily be taught by faculty in the Department of War Studies at the world-renowned King’s College London.

The Clements Center recognizes that great research and scholarship often requires great resources. The Center therefore provides grants to UT students and professors who undertake research at presidential libraries and foreign archives, as well as paper presentations at academic conferences. 

On May 13, Strauss Center Director Robert Chesney and Intelligence Studies Project Director Steve Slick spoke to the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board about “Separation of Powers and the History of E.O. 12333.” Executive Order 12333 “governs the intelligence efforts of the United States.”

Clements Center Graduate Research Assistant and Fellow Megan Reiss was selected by the Rumsfeld Foundation to receive a fellowship to support her research on presidential decision making and the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty as she works to finish her PhD in Public Policy.

For two centuries, the staff ride has been the most important tool for combining history education with wargaming. Staff rides at the Clements Center employ pre-reading, classroom discussions, on-site tours, and hands-on simulation exercises.

The Clements Center for History, Strategy and Statecraft would like to congratulate Dr. Greg Fenves on being appointed as the next University of Texas president.

On Thursday, April 16, the Clements and Strauss Centers welcomed former Islamabad CIA Station Chief Bob Grenier to discuss his new book, 88 Days to Kandahar: A CIA Diary.

The Clements Center sponsored the participation this week of 16 University of Texas-Austin students in “Exercise Nine Innings” at the United States Marine Corps Command and Staff College in Quantico, Virginia. 

The Intelligence Studies Project of the University of Texas at Austin announces the inaugural round of an annual competition recognizing outstanding student research and writing on topics related to intelligence and national security.

On Wednesday, April 1, the Clements Center welcomed Dr. Eric Cline of George Washington University to UT Austin to present the Annual Strategic Insights from the Ancient World Lecture. 

The Clements Center will host two leading experts on two of the world’s most important regions, Asia and the Middle East, this week.

The Clements Center is seeking applications for funding from undergraduate and graduate students who have secured unpaid summer internships related to national security and foreign policy. Funding will be awarded to those students whose summer work best reflects the mission and goals of the Clements Center.

The Clements and Strauss Centers were represented by Intelligence Studies Project Director Steve Slick at a March 3, 2015 symposium on A Decade of IC Integration & The Challenges Ahead hosted in Arlington, Virginia by the Intelligence and National Security Alliance.

On Thursday, April 2nd at 4:00pm in the Blanton Museum Auditorium, U.S. Senator Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) will speak at UT on national security. 

The “Presidential Power, Then and Now” lecture series will be hosted by the Clements Center in the spring of 2015. The series will examine the origins of presidential power and how the framers conceived of the office of the presidency.

The Clements Center would like to extend a warm welcome to the new University of Texas System Chancellor William McRaven. 

The Clements Center would like to congratulate Statecraft Board member Ashton Carter on his nomination to be the next Secretary of Defense, replacing Secretary Chuck Hagel.  

The Clements Center recently released its Winter 2014 newsletter. The online publication highlights the great accomplishments from fall 2014 and looks ahead to the spring semester. 

James Barnett will be spending five months in the spring of 2015 in Amman, Jordan studying regional diplomacy and Arabic at the Jordan Institute of Diplomacy.

In Spring 2015, the Clements Center is pleased to sponsor the “Young Scholars Speaker Series.” The series will feature four young scholars who have recently published books on topics ranging from Syria to John Quincy Adams.

Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Steele Brand will teach a class of over 60 undergraduate students about “Military History to 1640” for UT’s Department of History in Spring 2015.

Undergraduate Fellow Mark Jbeily has been selected to receive a Marshall Scholarship in 2015. 

The Clements Center for History, Strategy & Statecraft and the War Studies Department at King’s College London hosted the second in an annual series of conferences jointly sponsored by the two organizations titled “Grand Strategy and the Anglo-American World View: A Century of the Special Relationship.” This year’s conference took place at King’s College London November 13-15.

Clements Undergraduate Fellow Kevin Powell was recently awarded the prestigious Undergraduate Research Fellowship (URF) by the Office of the Vice President for Research at The University of Texas at Austin.

Because internships in foreign and defense policy can be an essential part of professional development and career opportunities in national security policy, the Clements Center wants to help UT students in identifying and pursuing internship opportunities.

It has been a decade since the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 ushered in a sweeping reorganization of the U.S. intelligence community, creating the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the National Counterterrorism Center.

The application due date for the Clements Center’s Maymester in London program has been extended to Monday, November 3rd! 

Check back on this page beginning Thursday, October 16th at 4:00pm CST for a live stream of the “Intelligence Reform and Counterterrorism after a Decade: Are We Smarter and Safer?” public conference hosted on UT campus by the Clements Center for History, Strategy & Statecraft and the Strauss Center for International Security and Law.

I interned at U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters in Washington, D.C. and worked specifically on the Strategic Management Directorate’s futures scenario planning project called Evergreen.

In May of 2015, the Clements Center for History, Strategy & Statecraft will offer a unique Maymester opportunity titled “The British Strategic Tradition and Its Influence on the United States” in London.

It has been a decade since the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 ushered in a sweeping reorganization of the U.S. intelligence community, creating the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the National Counterterrorism Center.